Footnotes
Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL. Frierson’s letter was later printed in the Nauvoo Neighbor. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [3], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
“Heywood, Joseph Leland,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:646.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
See, for example, Historical Introduction to Letter, 30 Oct. 1833; and Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:76–88].
Elias Higbee et al., Memorial to Congress, 10 Jan. 1842, photocopy, Material Relating to Mormon Expulsion from Missouri, CHL; compare Edward Partridge, Memorial to U.S. Congress, ca. Jan. 1839, Edward Partridge, Papers, CHL.
Material Relating to Mormon Expulsion from Missouri, 1839–1843. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2145.
Edward Partridge, Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1017; Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL. The Elmore letter is not extant, but it was reprinted in the Nauvoo Neighbor. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, Inclusive. Edited by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and Bruce A. Ragsdale. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
The other men present at the meeting were Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, John Taylor, and William Clayton. (JS, Journal, 2 Nov. 1843.)
The “distinguished citizen” was Franklin H. Elmore, to whom Frierson wrote from Quincy, Illinois, on 12 October 1843. In that letter, Frierson recognized the difficulty the Saints faced in petitioning Congress for redress. Elmore served the state of South Carolina as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1836 to 1839. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [3]; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1017.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, Inclusive. Edited by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and Bruce A. Ragsdale. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.
This confidential circular, dated 23 September 1843, was written in Charleston, South Carolina. It was signed by a committee of fifteen men who were appointed to elect John C. Calhoun to the United States presidency in the 1844 election. The committee expressed concern about the Syracuse Convention’s recent decision not to elect delegates to the national convention. This committee wanted to ensure that the people retained power to elect their delegates to the national convention and expressly identified Calhoun as a champion of the congressional district system. (Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL.)
The circular promoting Calhoun’s campaign characterized Van Buren as a weak presidential candidate, despite his service as the nation’s president. JS also had a low opinion of Van Buren. When JS met with President Van Buren in 1839 for assistance in securing redress for the Saints’ eviction from the state of Missouri, Van Buren rebuffed JS and responded, “What can I do? I can do nothing for you.” (Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL; Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 Dec. 1839.)